What Blockhouse? What Island?

The Small Island off Brockville and Its History
It was not much more than a rocky outcropping covered with grass and shrubs when the village of Buell’s Bay was first developing on the present site of Brockville.
The earliest name attached to what we now know as “Blockhouse Island”, was “Refuge Island.” For what reason, we don’t [...]

The early Bank of Montreal in Brockville

3 Wall St. at the corner of Pine St. on Brockville’s Court House Square

This is a very old picture of the Court House Square branch of the Bank of Montreal, taken about 1865. Constructed of cut and dressed limestone, the property was enclosed for many years by an impressive white-painted fence of wood.
Sources: This [...]

A View of Eastern Ontario and Northern New York following the American-British War of 1775-1783

1784 Map - showing Upper Canada & northern New York State

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Geographically, the area shown in this map is well-known to most people [...]

Col. David Wylie, Journalist, Publisher & Local Politician [1811-1891]

David Wylie was a Scottish journalist who came to Brockville in 1849 to take over the ownership of the “Brockville Recorder“.

This portrait engraving of David Wylie was taken from”The History of Leeds & Grenville” written by Thaddeus Leavitt.

About David Wylie
From 1849-1875 and 1879-1885, David Wylie was the owner and editor of the “Brockville Recorder“.
A native [...]